Projects

Pallas Projects collaborates with artists and groups, placing a particular emphasis on early-career, emerging artists and recent graduates, experimental or overlooked practices.

Our gallery programming is centred around our open-submission Artist-Initiated Projects. Selected projects are presented in the context of a gallery space with a dedicated tradition towards the professional development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment and are supplemented with artists’ talks, texts, workshops, performances, artists' interviews, and gallery visits by colleges and local schools.

This core programme is contextualised alongside collaborative, curated, and international projects.

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The Marian Year
05/08/22—07/08/22
White wall gallery with a wooden floor, a large tapestry of a a euro millions loto ticket in mint green andd black colours hangs between two walls and trails down the floor.

The Marian Year is a reflection on pieces of the old Ireland that provide reminders of identity in a city scrambling to forget itself.

Part of Special Projects
Chronic Collective
25/07/22—27/08/22
A group of people wearing face masks posing for a picture, four stand in the back, in front of them one person sits and another kneels beside them, in the background is a white wall covered in post-it notes in pastel purple, pink, green and blue surround the text 'Chronic Collective' written in a neon pink.

Chronic Collective, an initiative by artists Áine O'Hara and Tara Carroll who have developed a landmark series of events around art, illness, and disability. These events are by and for sick and disabled artists as well as anyone who wants to create with accessibility in mind, or participate in an accessible art project.

Part of Collaboration
Exquisite Moving Corpse Screening
21/07/22
Video still depicting two women standing in a public park, the woman in the back is about to walk on a piano rug and the other woman stands on the other end facing the camera, old red brick buildings sit in the background and a fountain sits to the right.

The Exquisite Moving Corpse decisions were made to trade the methodology from the original Surrealist drawing strategy with video making. Each invited artist made a one-minute video based on the last frame of the previous minute.

Part of Special Projects
Camilla Hanney—Lament
30/06/22—16/07/22
Sculpture documentation of a white bust of a womans face with a floral headdress, silver tears are rolling down the cheeks from both eyes it sits on a white ceramic cake stand and a pair of ceramic cupped hands sits in front of the bust all on a white plinth with a dark background

Lament explores the tradition of Irish ‘keening’ and its deep-rooted relationship with catharsis, loss and care. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Qaleidoscope— Queer Film and Performance on Tour
10/05/22—11/05/22
Peformance documenation, a person wearing headphones is standing hunched over in front of a buliding, their two hands reach around holding the red brick framing the window.

Qaleidoscope will feature Canadian and international film and performance art by Queer and QTIBPOC artists that explore, question and play with notions of identity and utilize queer artistic expression to propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender, race and film and performance art itself.

Part of Collaboration
Deliverables
14/04/22—30/04/22
Exhibition documentation of a white gallery wall on the left s small white ipad displays a video work, in the centre a pile of large rusty metal screws tied together with twine and to the left a wooden embroidery frame with brown mesh stretched in the centre.

Deliverables is a remote collaborative exhibition project, the exhibition is the story of a postal package, an experiment in communal art making, and the celebration of a collaborative structure built over the course of one year, spanning across the Atlantic ocean. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Day Magee— Contraindications of the Cross
24/03/22—09/04/22
Performance documentation, a man lays in black underwear on a bright red sheet of fabric on a wooden floor, his hands hold a pair of scissors over his chest his arms and legs are tied with large black cable ties which stick out from his body, a white wall is behind him.

In Contraindications of the Cross, Magee presents a series of votive multimedia chronicling the lived intersections of queerness, illness and faith, prospecting the raw material of their experiences. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Artist-Initiated Projects 2022
19/03/22—19/11/22
Infographic on a beige background above text reads 'Artist Initiated Projects 2022' in a mint green colour, with a light blue semi circle, the text is mirrored below in the same blue with the mint green semi circle, the Pallas Projects/Studios square black logo sits in the middle of the image.

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2022.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Return to Disintegration—Periodical Review 11
10/12/21—22/01/22
Close up documentation of a carpet piece with an abstract image of a dog-like person in pink and orange surrounded by various shapes in multicolured red, pink, orange and blue background

Periodical Review (2011–ongoing) is a long-running curatorial project which sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland.

Part of Periodical Review
Katherine Sankey—Hydrozomes // water bodies
11/11/21—27/11/21

Katherine Sankey's sculpture uses living plant tissue and human supply lines to engage in the geo-feminist conversation about what we gouge and suck from the planet. Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Dubliners—6th Biennial of Painting, Zagreb
21/10/21—05/12/21

Pallas Projects are pleased to present ‘Dubliners’ – the international section of the 6th Biennial of Painting, Zagreb, curated by Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy. The exhibition affords a unique opportunity to present together for the first time, an intergenerational grouping of painters who were born, bred, studied (and taught), or live and work in Dublin.

Part of International Projects
Laura Ní Fhlaibhín—trailblazer
14/10/21—30/10/21

“Falling into lines and columns and sheets, He-trailblazer- carbon vanishing from the miniature curtain rail enclosure”. Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects